Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — THE CATTLE KINGS. [ARTICLE]

THE CATTLE KINGS.

The cattle kings have had a regular picnic, and have taken possession of the remainder of the public lands not gobbled up by the* railroad corporations, the land companies and the English lords. Criminal and civil suits in fifty-six cases were brought the first year of the Admidistration against these robbers, and possession of 1,632,395 acres recovered. In forty other cases fences were removed fiom around 566,180 acres. The cattle kings are about as lawless as their bulls, and the strong -arm of the Government had to be evoked to drive them out of the Indian reservations.